Romcoms are notorious for it as so many plots come down to a refusal to stop and communicate
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BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I’m wondering about examples of this sort of movie. Are they talking about obvious ones like Dumb and Dumber, Blazing Saddles, Airplane!, etc.?
Or do they mean movies that were supposed to be serious, but are accidentally bad because of bad writing?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Good one. Yeah, there’s some misunderstanding, and she yells at him and stomps out, and he never bothers to say “I wasn’t even there, I was at work.” But then you wouldn’t have 90 minutes of hijinx as he goes on some half-baked but romantic plan to win her back, involving a hot air balloon and dynamite.
Instead of just telling her what really happened.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean, if my experience is any indication, she won’t listen… But then again, it turns out my wife was passive aggressively trying to get me to leave her for years but I was too oblivious to get her hints…
wdx@feddit.org 1 day ago
Life comes to mind for me. Its a set of unfortunate and stupid events made worse entirely by the fact that these highly trained scientists abord a space station are too stupid to do proper quarantine.
Slovene@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Prometheus comes to mind as well. Aww look at this cute alien snake thing. I’m gonna take my helmet off and pet it.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I don’t remember that movie. I first thought you meant that movie with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence where they go to jail for Life. Hilarious movie.
I like Jake Gyllenhall, so I think I’ll watch your Life, even with your bad review.
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I always go back to Prometheus when talking about the “Idiot Ball” because it’s the gold standard. You’ve got these world-class scientists sent on a trillion-dollar mission who don’t even know what they’re doing there until they wake up from cryo, and then they immediately act like children playing in a backyard.
The second the sensors say the air is “breathable,” they’re ripping their helmets off like they’ve never heard of a space-virus or a spore. It’s insane. Then you’ve got the biologist, a literal professional, seeing a hissing, alien “space-cobra” in a clear threater posture and his first instinct is to try and pet it like a stray cat.
And don’t even get me started on the guy who literally mapped the cave with high-tech drones being the one who gets hopelessly lost in it. Or the “Prometheus School of Running Away from Things” where you run in a perfectly straight line under a falling, circular ship instead of just… stepping to the left? It’s like the script needed the plot to happen so badly that it just stripped every character of their survival instincts and professional training.
Compare that to competency porn shows, like the Martian, where they FEEL like the best of the best
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 1 day ago
I used to hate Prometheus but caught a second viewing years later and came around a bit. The running only straight thing is… yeah. But I’ll defend the inclusion of stupid scientists as a key part of the story because the movie goes out of its way to show that these are people only interested in getting paid, which suggests they might not be the best scientists. Yeah, it’s a “trillion dollar mission,” but I’d assume that in the future that trillion dollars isn’t as much as it might be for us. So these are, perhaps, the cheapest scientists that Wayland can buy, the sort of guys who’d give up years of their lives and careers to fuck off on a starship based solely on the premise of “we might find the aliens that made us.”
llama@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Think Burn After Reading
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 1 day ago
Hahaha precisely the movie I’ve used to describe my feelings about the current illegal war going on right now.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Definitely the badly written movies. Where the whole plot would have changed if they just communicated.
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not a movie, but death note.
If the dude didn’t take the obvious bite every episode there’s no way of catching him.
anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I mean a whole lot of horror movies would end in 5-15 minutes if the victims weren’t idiots who decide to explore the obviously dangerous “thing”.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Ah, valid, Horror is my least favorite genre. Probably a lot Idiot Plots there.